KEY WORDS
Composition- It is the arrangment of objects in the frame.
Focus- It is when the camera is kept on one thing and you take a photo
Gradient:
Tone- Its when some parts are lighter then get darker gradually.
Contrast- This is when you have light in the centre of the photo and darker edges.
Aperture- Its like a lense but its made for somehting like a pinhole camera and it controls the amount of light that gets in.
Blurred- Its out of focussed it isn't clear you can't see properly
Depth of field- Its means the closer an object is to the camera its a shallower depth is but further away the deeper the depth of field.
Exposed- This is the length of time you let in or onto photographic paper.
Over Exposed- This is when it becomes black or white from too much time exposed to light
Under Exposed- This is not enough time exposed to light
Panoramic:Its a collection of photos that is one countinuouis scene.
Grain:This is when the pattern of extremly small spots of black white or colour on a photograph.
Texture-
Space- The area around and in between an image.
Foreground- Its the part located closer to the camera.
background- Its the part behind the main thing your focusing onShutter:It controls the amount of time that the photograph will be taken.
Cropping- When you remove outer parts of an image that isn't needed
Resolution- This is the detail the image holds.
Saturation- It descibes the intensity of an images colours.
BLOOM'S TAXONOMY FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
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What kind of response could you make? What elements have inspired/influenced you in your work? What have you learned from looking at this work and from making your own response?
Creating and Evaluating
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How does this image compare with others you have seen?How would you interpret the subject differently? Synthesising
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Explain what you think the photographer is trying to say about the subject matter. If you could interview the photographer, what questions would you ask?
Analysing
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What is the subject or theme? What formal elements do you notice? What equipment, techniques and processes have been used to make the image?
Understanding
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Describe the photograph. What can you see?
Describing
When looking at a photograph, students might be asked to:
Describe it.
What do you see in this photograph?
What words would you use to describe this photograph?
How would you describe this photograph to a person who could not see it?
Is this a naturalistic or abstract image?
What things do you recognize in this photograph? What things seem new to you?
Understand it.
What equipment, techniques and processes have been used to make the image? How does this affect the way we view it? What does this photograph remind you of?
How would you describe the lines in this picture? The shapes? The colors/tones? The textures and patterns?
How has the photographer captured the play of light in this image?
How is this picture different from real life? What interests you most about this work of art?
Analyze it.
How is space represented in this photograph?
Which part of the photograph strikes you as most interesting? Why?
What questions would you ask the artist about this work, if s/he were here?
What can you discover about this image and the work of this artist through research? How does this new knowledge affect your understanding of the work?
Interpret it.
What title would you give to this photograph? What made you decide on that title? What other titles could we give it? What do you think is going on in this picture? How did you arrive at that idea?
What do you think this photograph is about? How did you come up that idea?
Pretend you are inside this photograph. What does it feel like?
Why do you suppose the artist made this photograph? What makes you think that? What do you think it would be like to live in this photograph? What makes you think that?
Evaluate and create it.
What do you think is effective about this photograph? What doesn’t work so well?
What do you think other people would say about this work? Why do you think that?
What do you think is worth remembering about this photograph?
Create a photographic response to this image. What did you choose to create and why? How does it compare to the original stimulus? What have you learned from exploring this work of art?